One day I got to thinking about all the steel work that we needed to install on the ship after the painting was complete. This included all the chain plates (Straps that hold up the mast upright and bow sprit in place). The normal way to do this is to have them hot dipped galvanized and then paint them. This method is OK but I thought that there should be a better approach to this delema in the 21st Century. I started to surf the web and came up with the idea to have the steel powder coated. My main question was, could powder coating hold up to the riggers of a saft water environment? So I got in touch with John and Debbie McGeehan of Powder Coating Inc. in Mukilteo, Washington. They filled me in on powder coating and ended up doing a superior job on all the steel. I wanted the steel to take on a bronze tone to match the port lights. For great service and good prices for powder coating go to http://www.powdercoatinginc.com
As you can see they came out looking great!!	Here is my brother Ron looking at his finished handy work.
Here is Gnettie with all the steel. Notice that they were even able to powder coat the galvanized bolt heads (shown behind Gnettie).	If everyone else gets their picture in here the Captain should have a chance too!
The finish work begins. Here is Gnettie removing the masking tape and plastic from the rub rail. Whisker Chain Plate and hawse are already installed.	Starboard aft section complete! (Window trim to go on yet...)
Close up of port whisker chain plate.	Here are the main mast chain plates installed ready for the sea!
Aft view showing "Pirate Windows" and boomkin.	Proud Captain and his Ship.